Andreea Mihalache, Ph.D.
Co-Director of Architecture Graduate Programs; Associate Professor of Architecture
Contact
Richard A. McMahan School of Architecture
Office: Lee 2-313
Email: amihala@clemson.edu
Education
Ph.D., Virginia Tech; Ph.D., Ion Mincu University of Architecture and Planning
Andreea Mihalache teaches architectural design, history, and theory. Before coming to Clemson she taught at Mississippi State University, Virginia Tech, Cal Poly, and The Catholic University of America.
Through the intersections of architecture, visual culture, philosophy, and aesthetics, her research examines the status of architecture within the consumer culture from the second half of the twentieth century onward, focusing on moods and atmospheres, corporeality and embodiment, domesticity and the everyday, collective and individual memory as modes of resistance to the commodification of architecture. She believes that conjectural and speculative thinking fully anchored in, and supported by, historical research offers a way of fostering creativity and imagination in design and research. Her work has been published in edited volumes and journals and presented at national and international conferences. Her students' work has received accolades in design competitions such as ACSA COTE Tope Ten and SARA Awards.
Her first monograph titled "Boredom and the Architectural Imagination: Rudofsky, Venturi, Scott Brown, and Steinberg" was published in 2024 by The University of Virginia Press and most recently received the Honorable Mention in the Best Book Category at the 2025 Annual Conference of the Southeast Chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians. https://www.upress.virginia.edu/title/5353/
